Big September Reveal!!

Yep...friends, it is that time again!

The big HIP KIT CLUB reveal!!

SEPTEMBER 2015 HIP KIT (MAIN KIT)

Hip Kit Club Member Price:  $29.95 (requires a 3 month minimum subscription) CLICK HERE to join! Individual Kit Purchase Price:  $34.95

Products Included:

• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Bright Eyes Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Expedition Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Seeker Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Bear Hug Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Hello Love Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Me & You Paper
• 1 sheet – Elle’s Studio – Thankful – Fun Times Paper
• 1 sheet – Elle’s Studio – Thankful – Sweater Paper
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Enamel Hearts
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Rub-Ons
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers –  Ephemera Die Cut Shapes
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Wood Slices
• 1 package – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Noted Cork Thickers
• 1 package – October Afternoon – Daily Flash – Deep Sea Alphabet Stickers
• 1 package – Crate Paper – Wonder – Die Cut Words

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HIP KIT CLUB – SEPTEMBER 2015 EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $26.95* *Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 booklet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Washi Tape
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Follow Chipboard Thickers
• 4 assorted pieces – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Embroidered Tags
• 4 – American Crafts – Gold Arrow Paper Clips
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Rubber Shapes & Words
• 1 package – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Painted Wood Buttons
• 1 sheet – Elle’s Studio – Grey Mini Alphabet Stickers

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HIP KIT CLUB – SEPTEMBER 2015 PROJECT LIFE ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $29.95* *Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Momento Thickers
• 1 package – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Fine & Dandy – Sparkling Gold Heart Thickers
• 1 package – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Rub-Ons
• 1 package – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Puffy Stickers
• 1 package – Freckled Fawn – Wood Veneer Words
• 24 Hip Kit Club Exclusive Project Life Cards designed by Kim Watson (NOT SHOWN)  Image to be updated to include the collection of Project Life Cards within the next few days!  Will definitely be worth the wait!

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HIP KIT CLUB – SEPTEMBER 2015 COLOR ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $28.95* *Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Distress Markers are great for creating an awesome water color effect.
Just wait to see what our DT members do with them!!!

Products Included:

• 1 Elle’s Studio – Jordan Clear Alphabet Stamp Set
• 1 Ranger – Tim Holtz – Cracked Pistachio Distress Marker
• 1 Ranger – Tim Holtz – Abandoned Coral Distress Marker
• 1 Ranger – Tim Holtz – Blueprint Sketch Distress Marker
• 1 Ranger – Time Holtz – Fresh Squeezed Lemonade

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HIP KIT CLUB – SEPTEMBER 2015 PAPER ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $11.95* *Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Scout Die Cut Paper (not included in main kit)
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Bright Eyes Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Expedition Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Amy Tangerine – Finders Keepers – Seeker Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Bear Hug Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Hello Love Paper
• 1 sheet – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary – Me & You Paper
• 1 sheet – Elle’s Studio – Thankful – Fun Times Paper
• 1 sheet – Elle’s Studio – Thankful – Sweater Paper

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HIP KIT CLUB – SEPTEMBER 2015 CARDSTOCK ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $10.95* *Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 2 sheets – American Crafts – Grapefruit Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts – White Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts – Light Kraft Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts – Slate Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts – Geranium Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts – Banana Cardstock

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How to use 6x6 and 8x8 paper pads!

Do you squirrel away your 8x8 & 6x6 paper pads like I do?? I look at them & feel bad that I am not actually using them, so thought I'd challenge myself to try. This is the result!

8x8 pads don't have to be limited to mini books, I used 5 pages from a 8x8 pad to create the entire layered background on this double page. 

I am proud to share it was published in a local print magazine: Scrapping & Kei. Many thanks to Liezel & the team for selecting it.  

It page about one of my closest friends, Lisa. Everything about the page is a reflection of who she is. It is a gift for her birthday to be hung in her bedroom :)

• She is a girly girl
• Loves the pretty things in life.
• Loves gold accessories & home decor accents.
• Crazy about cute critters.
• One of the strongest people I know. 
• Has beautiful, kind & thoughtful personality.

Hello my Name is Lisa by Kim Watson

Supplies: Digital supplies: Actions by Sweet Shoppe; Cardstock: +Bazzill Basics Paper ; Patterned paper: +Cosmo Cricket , +Glitz Design ; Stickers, Paper leaves, Gold Brads: +American Crafts; Frame: Jillibean Soup; Tags: Elle Studio; Wooden Veneer: +Freckled Fawn, Cosmo Cricket; Fabric pom-pom: +Basic Grey; Stamp, Ink: +My Favorite Things Stamps; Mist: Maya Road, +Ranger Ink ; Stencils: The Crafters Workshop; Adhesive: +TombowUSA , +Thermoweb , 3L; Tools: Scissors, Mat & Trimmer: +Fiskars ; Other: Typewriter, Vellum, Buttons. 

How-to create the collage background:

• Select 'muted' co-ordinating paper designs.
• Cut the pages into different width paper strips.
• Layer over one another to create a well balanced collage.
• Adhere along the top edges of the paper only leaving the bottoms loose for 3 dimensional texture.
• Mist entire page with opaque white mist. Allow enough drying time. (White takes longer than usual colors.)
• Splatter with highlight color and paint water color dots in a 3rd color, creating an interesting background.
• Once dry, add decorative stitching.
• Complete your page on top of patch-worked background. 

Paper leaves, journaling onto vellum, buttons, brads & tags make this page a winner! 

My title was matted onto a big stamped image by My Favorite Things stamps...isn't it divine! More buttons, a heart badge & glittered bling add lovely focal points to the page.

I hope this technique has inspired you to haul out those smaller pads & get them onto a scrapbook page.

I'm glad you stopped by!

Scrapbooking your other passions?

As you know, February means Valentine’s Day. This page focuses on one of my greatest loves,

but not necessarily romance. Instead of focusing on a sweetheart, it focuses on where we live; one of the most beautiful places on earth. 

When tackling this article assignment for Papercrafts & Scrapbooking magazine, I found choosing only a few photos from the 100's I have on file, a difficult task. 

The thing that jumped out at me was the amount of breath-taking sunset images I had captured since living here in Kommetjie, so finally settled on 3 of my most recent to use on this scrapbook page. It went without saying that I would have to enlarge one of them to maximise its 'wow-factor'. The shot in question was taken using my iPhone, seriously...no lenses or effects. It looks like that IRL :)

I feel so spoilt at the sheer amount of beauty that surrounds us merely a 5 minutes drive from our house. 

Our neighborhood has an enormous feeling of space & freedom, having the mountains behind & in front of us, with the Atlantic in between . It makes me happy to wake up every morning, knowing that a moments walk or drive in any direction, and & I can be surrounded by world-class beauty.

Love This by Kim Watson: Supplies: Cardstock: AmericanCrafts; Patterned paper: Elle's Studio, +Fancy Pants Designs; Chipboard, Tags, Buttons, Envelope, Stickers, Blackboard label: +Fancy Pants Designs ; Decorative Tape: +Freckled Fawn; Hemp: +Close To My Heart ; Stamps: +Technique Tuesday , Elle's Studio, Cocoa Daisy; Ink: +Ranger Ink ; Pen: +Kuretake ZIG ; Adhesive: +TombowUSA, +Thermoweb, +Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L ; Tools: Mini Attacher by +Ranger Ink; Cutting mat, Scissors, Trimmer by +Fiskars

Making the most of a preprinted tag from  Elle's Studio with the addition of a big button, chipboard from Fancy Pants Designs & stamps, creating the cutest accent cluster for the corner of the big photo. 

Adding another accent cluster to the bottom right corner of the large photo, creates movement across the page as well as balance. Don't you LOVE that cute stamp from Technique Tuesday?!

More layering of accents from the Memories Captured collection from Fancy Pants Designs & stamped images from Technique Tuesday.

So I challenge you to try scrapbooking another passion or great love in your life, other than the 2 legged variety :D

Glad you stopped by!

Crafty ways with everyday products!

Yes...it is the week of LOVE!

Yes... it is commercialised......but let's be honest it is fun, and you can be assured, your loved ones on the receiving end of your love gifts & spoils are surely not going to be complaining about commercialism hehe!

The page I am sharing is a scrapbook layout as published in the Feb 2014 issue of Paper Crafts  & Scrapbooking magazine. It is about our cute daughter & one of her (boy) BFF's. Their love & support of each other in an age where life puts so much pressure on one, is refreshing & sweet! Worthy of a scrapbook page.

Love you to the Moon by Kim Watson: Supplies: Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned paper: +Heidi Swapp, Elle's Studio; Tags & Stamps: Elle's Studio; Buttons: +Fancy Pants Designs; Glitter: Martha Stewart; Mist, Gesso, Ink and Texture Paste: +Ranger Ink; Pen: +Kuretake ZIG ; Adhesive: +Thermoweb, +TombowUSA ; Stencils: The Crafters Workshop; Cutting mat, Scissors, Trimmer by +Fiskars ; Buttons; Other: Black charcoal pencil.

When creating this page....I was challenged to use everyday...ordinary things found at home & in your junk drawer.

These are the obscure things I used: 

• Bamboo coaster mat
• Crossword pages 
• Ticket strips
• Mat & beads
• Dental floss

I gesso'd a bunch of tickets from the strip to knock back the red color, & created paper feathers in different sizes. One I left as is, the other I covered in liquid glue & dredged in fine gold glitter. Gorgeous!!

See the little wooden frame around the sentiment card? I used a bamboo coaster mat, undid it and used the thin bamboo sticks as the supports for my feathers & frame. I took my extra minty dental floss & dyed with lime green mist...it became a super color accent for the layout, which I looped & tied across the page.  

BONUS: my page smells all fresh & minty! :)

Using a kiddies art mat & beads, I created a 'love' inspired accent which when ironed melted & sealed together. Using zig-zag scissors, I cut the ironing sheet into a circles, stitched it & matted the bead accent on top. The discarded bead template came in real handy to add 'comb-like' texture to texture paste onto the background before misting & inking. I tore dictionary pages into quarters & gesso'd them onto my background page for texture & interest. 

Left white, I used the dental floss to stitch buttons & hand stitching areas for added interest.

Ok...let me say....as bizarre as this challenge was...I loved it. It stretched me creatively & I loved every moment of designing it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Got the cover + Masterful Scrapping

Once again I am blown away by the talent & intellect of some of the wonderful people I get to work with in the Scrapbooking Industry.  

Yesterday Process Play ebook went live over at Masterful Scrapbook Design and I am very excited and honored to be invited back as one of the Guest Teachers! This issue is clever, informative & full of wonderful tips & tricks to help even the most advanced designer get the most out of her creative process. Once again +Debbie Hodge, +Tami Taylor & +Amy Kingsford have outdone themselves. Thank you for having me join you & the rest of the talented teachers once again!

The other teachers include +Carrie Arick, +Leah Farquharson, +Lynn Grieveson, +Sue Althouse 

If you aren't a subscriber...I recommend you reconsider & sign up. 
The content ROCKS!!

(PS: That is my page, 'Capture' on the cover...I'm stoked!)

SNEAKS of my the pages!

Many thanks to +FancyPantsDesigns, Elle's Studio & American Crafts for the amazing products used for these projects. 

 Happy Friday peeps!

FREE cut file + published layout.

Being Thursday, means the house is tidied after last nights Wednesday night Believers get-together...I can finally get down to some much needed crafty-catch up & writing. 

I am so grateful to have had a bunch pages published this year in Paper crafts & Scrapbooking magazine. I thought it might be fun to post a couple of them here too. This one, a double page from the January 2014 issue of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking (page 100), using supplies from  Fancy Pants Designs,  Elle's Studio & journal card by Technique Tuesday.  

Sweet Surprise by Kim Watson

TIP: I didn't have the perfect color cardstock for my title, so cut it in white cardstock & spritzed it with October Afternoon sprinkers to perfectly match the green in the striped patterned paper.

For those of you with electronic die-cutting machines, I have made this cut file available for download in a couple of file types. See below for links.

Sweet Surprise cutfile set by Kim Watson 

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These cute printables also available online at January 2014 issue of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking.

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Such pretty papers & a Tutorial!

I had the privilege of working with the Hello Again collection from Carta Bella papers last week. Here are a couple of those pages. The others I still have to photograph.

 Remember by Kim Watson

A page about Ms Suzy Plantamura & our friendship. She is the cutest!! Why she has to live in LA...I will never understand :) Oh and all dies used are from My Favorite things,  Stamps from Elle's Studio.

Die-namics LLD Accent It - Story Title

Lifetime of Memories by Kim Watson

I created this page for the Creating Keepsakes Editors blog with a tutorial using adhesive sheets, punches & glitter.  

For a FULL TUTORIAL of this technique and images see here>>>
Thanks for stopping by & happy crafting friends!